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by Voultapher 427 days ago
> Unkey's landing page is a nice example.

That landing page is a nauseatingly laggy experience on a very powerful M1 Pro laptop. And slow to load, all for some fancy lines? I'd take a product that focuses on substance over style as dev. Don't get me wrong, style is important and I like pretty things, but here it seems the tradeoff is not well done.
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leptons 427 days ago
> laggy experience on a very powerful M1 Pro laptop

Apple's M series chips aren't really all that powerful, but they are very power efficient. There are far faster laptops out there than what Apple offers, though they do consume more power. My AMD-based laptop outperforms the M1 Pro by a wide margin, though it is a power hog. I had no problem viewing the Unkey website. If you're using Safari, that may also be a problem, because Safari honestly sucks.

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Voultapher 426 days ago
I'm on Chrome and the page was fine-ish after the first full scroll, but that first scroll was quite laggy. Note, I'm extra sensitive to this kind of stuff.

> Apple's M series chips aren't really all that powerful, but they are very power efficient.

In terms of single threaded performance, they are both. Especially the IPC is very impressive take a look at for example https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/wri...

> Assuming the same instructions per cycle (IPC) and mapping of instructions to cycles, Zen 3 should be ~1.53x faster than Firestorm by virtue of clock frequency. Yet the micro-architecture released in the same year as Zen 3, goes from exceeding it to closely trailing it in terms of absolute throughput when the effects of branch misprediction are minimized.

Their newest generation of P-cores is simply unmatched in terms of ST perf, an M4 core can do 4k points in Geekbench ST, AMD's best Desktop offering does ~3.5k at a much higher clock frequency. For web browsing ST perf is king.

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deads1mple 426 days ago
On latest Chrome, MBP i7 2019 and it sure is laggy as hell

https://www.unkey.com/

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RobotToaster 427 days ago
Sounds like a problem with apple's implementation? I don't have any problem with firefox on an old 9th gen i5.
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